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Palsole, Sunay; Awalt, Carolyn – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008
Team-based learning (TBL) has been shown to improve student learning in a variety of settings. In a majority of cases, TBL has been implemented in face-to-face formats and occasionally in blended learning formats, which are partially online partially and face-to-face in a classroom. The Sloan Consortium surveys report a steady increase in the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, Cooperative Learning
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Hurley, Maureen; Patterson, Kay L.; Wilcox, F. Kim – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2006
This chapter discusses Video-based Supplemental Instruction, a variation of the SI model. (Contains 6 figures.)
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Enrichment Activities, Instructional Films, Audiovisual Instruction
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Walker, Joan M. T.; Brophy, Sean P.; Hodge, Lynn Liao; Bransford, John D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2006
This study evaluated students' perceptions of two types of instructional materials focused on engineering professionalism: a passage of advice about professionalism and the same passage with a video enacting the advice. The role of experience in learning about professionalism is discussed, with particular emphasis on how educational materials…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Instructional Material Evaluation, Intermode Differences, Undergraduate Students
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McKenna, Ann – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2006
This chapter highlights some specific differences encountered between K-12 and higher education settings as a way to provide context for several research studies under way in engineering education. Specifically, this chapter highlights differences in three aspects of an academic learning environment: faculty, students, and subject matter.
Descriptors: Research Opportunities, Elementary Secondary Education, Engineering Education, Educational Research